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Music streaming was once dismissed by the mainstream music publishing industry. It was a hangover of piracy and viewed as a way to cheat them out of revenues. Yet this year’s hottest listing was that of Swedish giant Spotify, which floated valued at $30bn (£21bn) on the New York Stock …

Enlarge / Morning rush hour traffic makes its way along I-25 on October 12, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Denver police announced Friday that they had arrested a local 29-year-old Uber driver, Michael A. Hancock, on suspected first-degree murder. Hancock is believed to have shot and killed his passenger with his …

Enlarge / Cutting edge at the time, we swear. Doom (1993): Doom’s success lay not only with its addicting gameplay and technical innovations, such as its introduction of a portable game engine, but also in its innovative digital distribution. Note the prominent “shareware” advertisement on the top front of the …

In the wake of the 2013 Snowden revelations, a lot of reporters, including here at Ars, began to take a long look at the digital tools we were using for secure communications. After all, the National Security Agency whistleblower famously tried to reach journalist Glenn Greenwald through encrypted email, but …

Jaguar Change comes hard. And sometimes, it’s slow. Until recently, no industry played closer to that model more than that of the automobile. Ever since the first series-produced cars of the 1900s placed the big internal combustion lump of iron at the front, the drive wheels at the back, and …

Enlarge / No, no. Time crystals aren’t anything like The Dark Crystal. Jim Henson Studios Sometimes, a paper contains so many buzzwords it is hard to take it seriously. Time crystals were first mooted in 2012, and a realistic discrete time crystal was observed in 2017. The crystals we are …

Enlarge / Detail of the plug of an electric car being charged Getty Images On Thursday, California regulators approved three plans from the state’s three largest utilities, which will together result in nearly $768 million in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure spending. As a whole, the plan is the largest coordinated effort …

Enlarge / Orion is a military drone that can fly for five days with 1,000 pounds of payload. Aurora says it can perform surveillance missions 3,000 miles from home base. Aurora It looks like the drama surrounding Google’s controversial involvement in Project Maven is coming to an end. Yet another …

As North Korea’s government prepares for a possible summit with US President Donald Trump later this month, hackers working on behalf of the isolated country have continued a volley of network intrusions that target media, aerospace, financial, and critical-infrastructure companies in the US, South Korea, and other nations, researchers in …

A California state bill that would have more heavily regulated the use of flamethrowers has now effectively fizzled out in a legislative committee. In light of this development, there’s nothing to stop Boring Company customers in California from receiving the company’s sold-out flamethrowers. On May 26, the day after the …